مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

This research concerns with study of one of the constitutional principles as confirmed by the Libyan Constitutional Declaration issued by the Transitional Council in 2011 and the Libyan constitutional draft of 2017.The principle of promptness of adjudication on the criminal lawsuit which is one of the guarantees of the fair judgment. Violation of this principle leads to what is called the criminal lawsuit slowness crisis which disaffect the justice and has an adverse effect prejudicing the public interest of the State and the private interests of the individuals. It is the same which imparts special importance on the research in this topic. Through the research using the analytical method of the related legislative terms, we find ourselves on the point of facing the problematic which turns around the nature of the promptness which the realization of this principles requires and the attitude of the Libyan legist towards completion of the litigation or adjudication on the criminal lawsuit on the reasonable appointed time through the procedural the criminal lawsuit – organizing rules which he enacted from the stage of facts findings to the final judgment stage and the extent of his interest in adoption of the appropriate penalty in case of violation of the principles of promptness in adjudication on the criminal lawsuit. The most prominent of the research findings is that ,the Libyan legist did not omit the observance of provisions of the principle as other legists as apparent in fixing the periods, dates and adoption of some abridged criminal procedures. In return we notice the shortage which came upon some of its terms either by lack of the terms or their unclearness as the case with the provisions related to the provisional detention. Therefore we recommend the students in future to direct the interest of the legist to such gaps , which cause the justice slowness and wasting the rights and freedoms, to direct his constitutional policy towards keeping pace with the development taking place in the community for realization of the justice such as resorting to use what is known by the artificial intelligence ................... Keywords:.......... Adjudication promptness principle- constitution – law- legist- fair judgment guarantees.